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I I I o I I I ~ I OFTHE . ~ .--.,.... AID SOCIETY I No. 13 MAY 1989 SECTION PAGE I COMMIITEE MEMBERS AND EDITORIAL BOARD 1 I 11 EDITORIAL 2·3 I III "YOUTH" REMEMBERED 4·5 IV HERE AND NOW 6·16 I M. Silberstein, Muriel Friedman, B. Helfgott anonymous contributor V. Greenberg, M. Etkind, Dr. Rita Henryk-Gutt I V FROM THE SECOND GENERATION 17-29 Aloma Halter, Mindy Ebrahimoff, J. Tribich, Anne Karpf I VI FROM OUR FRIENDS AND WELL WISHERS 30-33 P. Yogi Meier VII THE 12TH LEONARD G. MONTEFIORE MEMORIAL LECTURE 34-53 I F. Berger, A. Poznanski VIII OBITUARIES 54-57 I H. Abisch, J. Banach, Edith Frydman, H. Oscar Joseph O.B.E., Mrs. Muriel Montefiore I IX MEMBERS' NEWS 58-62 I X RECENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS 63-67 I XI APPENDIX: Addresses of Members in London and the London Area 68-71 I I I I SECTION I I THE '45 AID SOCIETY President MARTIN GILBERT I Vice Presidents R BALSAM M BEALE I I FINKELSTEIN RABBI H GRYN MRS L HAHN-WARBURG I JULlAN D LAYTON OBE P Y MAYER A MONTEFIORE I DAME SIMONE PRENDERGEST OBE, JP Chairman: B HELFGOTT Vice Chairman: H BALSAM I Treasurer: I WILDER (33 Shaftesbury Avenue, Kenton, Middlesex) Secretary: M ZWIREK (55 Hatley Avenue, Barkingside, IIford) I MANCHESTER Chairman: D SOMMER Vice Chairman: H ELLlOTT I Secretary: LOUISE ELLlOTT COMMITTEE M Bandel, F Berger, K Dessau, M Etkind, H Fox , MEMBERS: S Freiman, M Friedman, M Goldfinger, V Greenberg, I D Herman, J Kagan, K Kendall, K Klappholz, R Obuchowsik, I Rudzinski, Z Shipper, H Spiro, I L Tepper, M Zwirek, A Zylberszac. SECRETARY Mrs R Dreihorn (LONDON) I SECRETARIES Mr and Mrs H Elliott (MANCHESTER) I JOURNAL OF THE '45 AID SOCIETY EDITORIAL BOARD F Berger, M Etkind, H Gryn, R Halter, I B Helfgott, K Klappholz. I EDITOR: KURT KLAPPHOLZ All submissions for publication in the next issue (including letters to the Editor and Members' News items) should be sent to: I Kurt Klappholz, Rosebery Avenue Hall, 90 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TY Tel: 01-278 3251 I (until 31st July 1989) Thereafter: 16 Glenmore Road, London, NW3 4DB I Tel: 01-722 5757 They should be typed in double spacing and reach the Editor l'I'ot later I than the end of October 1989. I SECTION II There may be some Members of our Society who read the Editorials of its Journal; there are likely to be even fewer who remember for any length of time what they read. And who remembers when the last issue of our Journal was published? However few belong to each of these three categories, it may not come amiss to menHqn that our Journal was last published in March 1985. Now that the Editor has had bestowed on him the utterly undeserved honour of being elected to the Committee of our Society, he receives more feed-back about \ Members' reactions to the Journal than he did before. He is therefore aware that at least some, apparently vociferous, Members regret the fact that the Journal has not appeared for such a long time. However, it is much less clear precisely what those Members regret about the non-appearance of the Journal. Some, perhaps most, mainly or only regret not receiving the contents of our Members' News Section. Yet, if rumour is to be believed, some also regret not receiving the contents of the other Sections of the Journal. These rumours take us back to what was said about the future of our Journal in the Editorial of the last issue. Just to remind you: in view of the paucity of Members' submissions of contributions a promise was made to propose motions to the Committee which, if passed, would have meant that the Journal ceased publication. In the event, because of irresistible political pressure against these motions, they were not put. Nevertheless, the Committee did consider whether to publish Members' News only, or whether to try to continue with the Journal in its present form. The Editor, lacking a flexible mind, thought that a decision between these two alternatives had to be made there and then. Harry Fox, with his nimble mind, pointed out that no decision needed to be made on this by the Committee; if the Editor receives enough submissions to fill a Journal, then we publish them. If we only receive Members' News, which we always do receive, then we shall publish it, presumably in the form of the Newsletter which the Journal was meant to supercede. This issue has now been resolved. It remains to be seen how often the Journal will appear. For more about the collection of Members' News, see the Section by that name. Those who like writing and have something to say should send their contributions to the Editor, at the addresses given on page 1; those who know of others who like writing and have something to say, should encourage the latter to send their contributions to the Editor. We turn now to our usual comments on the contents of this issue. Section III was intended to consist exclusively of contributions by our Members, concerning their experiences just before and during the War. In the past it contained such contributions. In this issue it consists of reports about us after the War. Sections IV and VI require no comment as they contain the kind of contributions for which they were intended. This time we are once again able to include Section V, a fact for which we should be duly grateful. It is a particularly good section, which should give its readers food for thought. In our last issue we published the 7th and 8th Leonard G Montefiore Memorial Lectures. On 23rd March of this year the 13th Lecture in this series was delivered and this issues contains the 12th Lecture. The latter does deserve noting here as it was the first one to be delivered by one of 2 I I our Members. Moreover, for the first time, Section VII contains a comment I on the Lecture. For the record, the 9th Lecture, "The Effects of the Holocaust on Jewish-Christian Relations", by the Reverend Isaac Levy, OBE, TD, PhD. was delivered on 1 st April 1985; the 10th, "Jews and Anti-Semites in 19th Century Germany", by Professor P Pulzer, was I delivered on 10th March 1986; the 11th, "Jewish Sport and Nazi Politics", by one of our Vice Presidents, Yogi Meier, was delivered on 23rd I February 1987. The Journal has always contained a Section entitled Forthcoming Events. As long as the Journal appeared once a year that Section could keep track I of our Society's major events. In view of the long lapse of time since the appearance of our last issue it seems appropriate to include an account of some recent events in which our Members participated. This explains the change in the title of the Section, as well as in its style, which has I become a mixture of that of an editorial and of a diary. Forthcoming Events could be included in a Newsletter, which suggests that the present form of this Section will not be repeated. Collectors of rarities, please I note. We last published lists of our Members in 1978. In this issue we publish I an Appendix containing a revised list of those who live in London and the London area. Notice should be given of a change in editorial policy. Hitherto, the I Editor made purely stylistic changes when he thought it appropriate to do so , usually, but not always, with contributors' consent. It has been brought to the Editor's attention that his efforts in this respect were not I always welcomed by contributors. Since the Editor wishes to please not only the readers of this Journal, but also the contributors to it, he has abandoned his previous policy. From now on, contributions which the Editor altered stylistically will be marked with an iI after the title. I Stylistic alterations will be made only with the contributor's consent or when the Editor has good reason to suppose that the contributor will be pleased to see them made. This would seem to be a change in policy to I which even among our Members no one could object. Finally, please note a slight change in the form of presentation in the I Journal. The titles of our various Sections are given only on the cover. each with a Roman numeral. Inside the Journal the Sections are referred I to only by their numerals. This avoids redundant repetition of words. I I I I I I 3 SECTION III THEY FIND REFUGE IN THE LAKE DISTRICT EUROPEAN CH I LDREN FLoWN To CROSBY The anonymous correspondent in The Carlisle Journal was Joseph Finkelstone, then a young reporter not much older than many of us were at the time. He is now foreign editor of The Jewish Chronicle. Ever since 1945 he has been interested in us, has attended our reunions whenever possible and is Honorary Member of our Society. (Ed) Reproduced from the Carlisle Journal, August 17th 1945 Jewish children from concentration camps, convalescent homes, and the streets of towns in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Germany have found a temporary home in the Cumberland Lake District. They have passed through horrors that can hardly be described. One of them, a boy of fifteen, actually fought in several battles and was awarded a medal. The children were flown direct from the Continent to Crosby aerodrome near Carlisle, in ten RAF Stirlings, and they landed on Tuesday afternoon.